aetimmes

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by aetimmes 9y ago
There's a distinction between scripted public speaking in a venue where all interaction is controlled and initiating real conflict in a public place with no such control.
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by aetimmes 13y ago
It affects the opportunity cost.
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by aetimmes 13y ago
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
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by aetimmes 13y ago
Gripe: One of the options that I selected reverted Hangouts to the old Google Chat system without explicitly saying so. EDIT: It was the Old Compose feature, which admittedly is in beta. Still, I'm not a fan of losing the group chats I
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by aetimmes 13y ago
There's no equivalent "online coding test" for admins, unfortunately.
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by aetimmes 13y ago
>How the hell does it end up 50% wins all the time? Because that's what the system was designed to do. If you're winning more than 50% it means that some percentage of the time, the game can't find 5 people who are better
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by aetimmes 13y ago
The price of invites on the Steam Marketplace has been about $0.03 since January (and there were several bots that collected invitations and handed them out to applicants).
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by aetimmes 13y ago
No, you don't have to pay to be competitive in LoL. But a lot of players don't want to be competitive, they just want to have all the options of the game available to them (which they never will unless they pay money).
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by aetimmes 13y ago
What about the concerns with running your apps on a single server? Or do you Hyper-V within a single instance?
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by aetimmes 13y ago
>...managing dozens of VMs ain't free either! It's not free, but configuration management tools make it pretty cheap. There's a reason Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt are getting a lot of attention in the DevOps wo
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by aetimmes 13y ago
Solaris/illumos have been running containers for almost ten years now. They're just a layer of abstraction on the other side of the OS layer - a different tool, not necessarily a better one.
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by aetimmes 13y ago
Social activism? Did you not even finish reading the headline?
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by aetimmes 13y ago
Not necessarily - if their goal is to get Facebook to reverse the change (which I imagine it is based on the fact that the website is based in an area with a lot of civil unrest), then providing reasonable rationalization in the article isn
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by aetimmes 13y ago
I believe Snowden has gone on record saying that members of Congress are exempt from NSA spying.
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by aetimmes 13y ago
>If you have zero physical security, that means that anyone can come up and just knock you down and take your things, your woman, whatever... Not my idea of "freedom". What you're describing is total freedom in a causal so
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by aetimmes 13y ago
Former President Obama would also have far more power than John Q. Citizen to make his metadata "disappear" if need be. I don't particularly buy this argument.
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by aetimmes 13y ago
s/Chief/Chef/g. :)
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by aetimmes 13y ago
>Are you really supporting the idea that potential customers of Moz, who go out in search of Moz and stumble on Doz, would confuse the two? With a Hamming distance of one between the names, why wouldn't this be plausible?
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by aetimmes 13y ago
What brand of air mattress do you have, if you don't mind my asking?
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by aetimmes 13y ago
I've been told by lawyers that M&A activity usually precedes an economic uptick in a sector. If that's true, then today is a pretty good day to be in tech.
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by aetimmes 13y ago
If Google continues its current growth trajectory and Yahoo! sticks around, I wonder how long it will be before people start rooting for Yahoo! as the "underdog".
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by aetimmes 13y ago
A meme that Tumblr uses pretty frequently, at that.
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by aetimmes 13y ago
At first I thought "oh, it's just another guy named Brad Pitt."
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by aetimmes 13y ago
Can we edit the title to say (2011)? The fact that you're bringing this up two years later only serves to validate Olav's viewpoint.
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by aetimmes 13y ago
Stock dividends come to mind. Not sure how common that is in the industry, though.
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by aetimmes 13y ago
The issue is making sure all actors in such a system is rational - no point in optimizing one constraint while ignoring the other.